Obtaining Blizzard Shop and BlizzCon Vanity Items

This guide covers how to obtain all of the vanity items that are obtained from Blizzard services--the in-game shop, BlizzCon, Recruit-a-Friend, and Collector's Editions--as well as how to redeem the item codes.

The Blizzard Shop is a great source for mounts, pets, and cosmetic helms which periodically go on sale and can be purchased in-game. Many can even be gifted, making them great gifts.

Collector's Editions, which come in digital editions and can be purchased via the Blizzard Shop, are pricier but rarer.

Recruit-a-Friend mounts and pets can obtained by referring yourself.

The most expensive Blizzard items are loot codes from special events like BlizzCon. These are only given to players that attend the event/purchase a virtual ticket, and as codes are limited, become quite expensive as time goes on.

Blizzard Shop

Purchasing Items via the Battle.net Shop

There are two Blizzard Stores: US and EU. Codes purchased from one store cannot be redeemed on the other region.

You can purchase an item by being logged into battle.net and browsing the shop, which is found next to the login option at the top right of the screen. This takes you to https://us.battle.net/shop/en/.

Click on Pets, Mounts, and Helms found in the "Filters" section on the left-hand side of the page. This brings up all of the WoW vanity items, although it does not bring up Digital Deluxe collector editions that have pets included. To find those, you will need to browse the Games section.

When you click on "Buy Now," a list of your eligible accounts comes up. Select which account you want the item on and hit "Continue."

The Payment screen allows you to pay with American Express, Visa, Mastercard, Discover, PayPal, or Battle.net points. Enter in your details, hit "Pay Now," and a confirmation email will be sent as well as your in-game item. When you next log on to WoW, the item will appear in your bags and an alert will flash across your screen.

If you would prefer to instead gift the item, hit "Gift" on the item's page. You will be taken to a similar-looking payment screen with an additional prompt to enter in the recipient's email. When you hit "Pay Now," you will be sent a confirmation email, and the recipient will also be sent a code they can redeem on the Battle.net Code Redemption Page.

In fall 2017, gifting is now available to Battle.tag friends and the shop UI received a revamp:

Purchasing Items via the In-Game Shop

The in-game shop button can be accessed in three different places: on the bottom-left side of the character select screen, at the top of the Game Menu accessed via "Escape," or on the Interface panel to the left of the Game Menu button.

Clicking on the Shop button pulls up a window with categories for Featured, Pets, Mounts, and Services.

If you have collected a mount or pet, a green checkbox is added to the top right of the display.

To purchase an item, select an item and then click the "Buy Now" button. You cannot gift items via the in-game shop and if you try to, you will receive an error alert that you already have this product.

After you make a purchase selection, a shop confirmation window will appear showing your item, cost, and method of payment. Click the X at the top right to cancel the purchase, or Buy Now to obtain the item.

The item will be delivered directly to your inventory upon purchase, with a confirmation email sent to your Battle.net address.

Some items are not available via the in-game shop including transmog helms, mount/pet discount bundles, and Digital Deluxe editions.

Mounts

Blizzard Shop mounts can be used at level 20, are account-wide, and work as ground mounts in no-flying zones.

Recruit a Friend

Recruiting Yourself

First up, it isn't against the rules to recruit yourself, whatever your reason for doing so. You can recruit yourself because you want the mounts or pets, or in order to multibox and boost characters up to higher levels with ease.

Send the email from the in-game system to whatever email address you like - it can even be the one you logged in with

Use your existing Battle.net account when it's requested unless you have a reason to create a new one. This saves running two Battle.net clients as well as two instances of WoW.

Run both instances of WoW from the same client by selecting them from the list separately.

Use the character-level friend option to add the New Account to the Veteran Account's list

Add subscription time to the New Account, not the Veteran Account, in order to receive the Veteran Account benefits.

If the new account, after upgrading to a full license of World of Warcraft, pays for two months of game time, the Veteran Account can choose one of nine special rewards. These are all account-wide.

Pets

Collector's Editions

Every Blizzard Collector's Edition has a pet and/or mount as a special reward. Recent games have Digital Deluxe Collector's Editions for sale on the Battle.net shop, but older collector's editions are not there and are very pricey on eBay.

Комментарии

Комментарий от mikeyt

Some of the prices on wowtcgloot.com are insane! Who's gonna pay almost 900 dollars us for a mount, especially this late in the game cycle, they've got to be dreaming if someone is going to purchase it, and if someone does, i want to hit them up for loan if they enough spare casg to purchare it :POtherwise a very good comprehensive guide.

Комментарий от Ozlem

Amazing guide!

I'd just like to add: Please please please be aware when buying the older/rarer cards from eBay! I've had to comfort many a heartbroken friend who had a seller take their cash and run then spend months trying to get funds back.

A dealer will always be slightly more expensive because it's a business (they have more overheads to deal with then eBay sellers) but at least you know you will end up with that item if you buy with a dealer. Personally there is only one eBay seller I trust with the big money items and that's wowblizzness, they are a well known seller for the rare Blizzard collector items. My collecting friends and I have all purchased the rare of rares from this eBay seller, other then that I can also vouch for wowtcgloot.com on delivering the goods, this is all personal opinion so take from it what you will but I have never heard of a successful outcome from anyone trying to purchase the super rare - big money items from outside these two stores.

Some of my quick tips for purchasing the rarer (& pricier) items from eBay are:

Look at their past sales, fake sellers will have sold items but they're random things like tea kettles, random play cards and socks. A legit seller will have sold many expensive collector items as well as items the same as yours or similar.

Never use direct deposit as a form of payment. Fraudulent sellers will always try and get you to direct deposit into a account because it's the easiest way they can take your money and run while you're left trying to convince your bank it was a mistake (some banks will not refund money under this circumstance.)

If the seller is new or you're thinking it could be a fake contact the seller, tell them you're interested but you would like more pictures of the item. Ask for a full picture of the front and back of the card with your name, or any word, on a piece of paper under it. If they crop the picture or if the pic looks doctored or if the card looks like a photocopy (look for thickness, a card is not as thick as a piece of paper, it's thicker) then walk away. A legit seller would be happy to do this for the rare cards (I'm not talking the spectral tiger, more mini tyrael or murky.)

Look at the image of the card, get that batch number (it's a line of numbers, sometimes with letters, running down the side of the card) contact blizzard customer service and get them to check that that card hasn't been activated. It takes them a while to do this BUT when you're talking serious money (Murky's card is tipping the USD$6,000 since mid last year) you want to be certain it's legit. A fake card will not have a batch number! A used card will often have the batch number cropped out of the picture.

Trust your gut instinct! If your gut is telling you that something isn't right then walk away! There are legit sellers out there who do sell the cards/codes so it's not like you are never going to get it if you want to buy it.

The legit sellers/dealers are more then happy to open conversation before you buy, I've personally found the legit ones to be the most chatty and friendly and professional. The quite ones who never answer your questions are the ones to avoid!

Good news is sometimes wowhead, wowtcgloot.com & warcraftpets.com run competitions and the top prize is something amazing like Mini Tyrael... so it's not 100% out of reach of getting one.